Massachusetts Appeals Court December 4, 2001, No. 00-P-753 (Commonwealth v. Clark)

Kafker, J.

After being indicted on fifteen separate larceny counts, the defendant, Richard Clark, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to all counts and was adjudicated a common and notorious thief. G. L. c. 266, § 40. As Justice Lemuel Shaw explained, “[t]he effect of the [common and notorious thief] statute is to consolidate the . . .